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Show HDTARIANS DUE II SPECIAL CAR Members of Atlantic City Club Seeking Convention Conven-tion for 1920. Special to The Tribune. ATLANTIC CITY, X. J., May 12. At-Jantic At-Jantic City Rotary club is out to land the 1920 convention of the International Association of Rotary Clubs, and to that end will send a representative delegation, at least a score in number, to the convention con-vention of the international organization at Salt Lake in June. The party will make the trip to the convention city with delegates from the Fifth district of Rotary, leaving Harris-burg, Harris-burg, Pa., on a special train, styled the "John Poole Special," in honor of the International In-ternational president, Wednesday, June 11. and will make several stops en route to exchange greetings with Rotarians in western cities and to boom the Atlantic City movement. The resort delegation will be headed by City Clerk Joseph A. MeXamee, a past president of the Atlantic At-lantic City club, as chairman, who will carry with him to the Salt Lake meet- ) ing a personal invitation to the Interna- tional body to meet in Atlantic City next year from Mayor Harry Baeharach, who is a Ilotarian, and from the entire city, commission. The prospect of having the Rotarians for tiie resort guests next year has secured se-cured the enthusiastic indorsement of the civic and business organizations of the city, including the Atlantic City Hotel Men's association, the resort publicity , bureau, which will be represented in the delegation bv Executive Secretary C. P. ' Ftine, and by the Chamber of Commerce. Com-merce. Atlantic City is primarily a convention , city, thoroughly equipped to handle the i largest body of visitors without disturbing disturb-ing the normal accommodation for tran-1 tran-1 sient guests, a condition contrary to that obtaining in commercial or manufacturing manufactur-ing cities. Its palatial hotels are the 1 last word in comfort, its railroad facilities facili-ties are ample and include three lines to the shore ; the automobile highways ! across tne state are in exceilent condi- tion in June, and the temperature of that month for the past half century, accord-' accord-' Ing to weather bureau records, is 66 degrees de-grees on the average. For diversion there is surf bathing In the ocean on a gently shelving beach, protected by a corps of expert Iffe guards: there is boating and fishing, I airpiane riding, and, on the five-mile stretch of board walk that skirls the " ocean front, the unique pleasure of rolling-chair riding. Atlantic City bases its claim upon the 1920 convention on -the fact that no !n-i !n-i ternational meeting has ever been he!d on the eastern seaboard. The movement for the convention is therefore backed by all of the eastern clubs, and asur- antes have lately been received from 1 many clubs in the north, west and south 1 nf minnnrt in thp mafrpr. Tbft Atlantic City club points to the fact that the irt-ternational irt-ternational associaion met south in ' Atlanta in 1917, in Kansas City In 1913. ( and will meet in the far west in Salt Lake this year. "Why not east in At- ' lan tic City in 1220?" is the campaign , slogan. ; Indian dances will be given for the benefit of those who attend the International Inter-national Rotary convention at Salt Lake June lu to :i0, according to a letter re- ceived nt Rotary headquarters from 1 Joseph Young, district governor-elect i frnm Pocatello Mr. Young writes that forty Indians will he brought here from Fort Hall res- 1 ervation by the Pocatello club. A number num-ber of squaws will be in the party, and ', it is proposed that an Indian settlement x bo made near tlie business district that persons may learn the camp life of the ' i red men. I |